Tag Archives: Howard Zinn

Falsely Teaching Our Children That America is Evil

Posted on August 16, 2022 by David E Smith

For 42 years American school children have been subject to a barrage of misinformation about our American history. This has helped cause many of them to hate America. And virtually every day we read about the results.

Posted in Education | Tagged "A People's History", "Debunking Howard Zinn", Christopher Columbus, Critical Race Theory, Daniel Flynn, Emory University, Gary Bauer, Howard Zinn, Marxist, Mary Grabar, Oklahoma, Ronald Reagan, Ryan Walters | Comments Off

National Education Association Seeks World Transformation

Posted on July 11, 2022 by David E Smith

The National Education Association’s (NEA) annual convention took place last week in Chicago. It opened with a theatrical speech act by NEA president, Rebecca (Becky) Pringle who has no dearth of pride in the “amazing accomplishments” of the NEA members. Pringle cited as inspiration for world transformation—not systemically oppressed persons of color like Thomas Sowell, Carol Swain, or Glenn Loury—but communist and former Black Panther who studied under Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis:

We must share [the] view Professor Davis holds dear whether it is a mind, a heart, a school, a community, or our world,

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Posted in Education | Tagged Angela Davis, Becky Pringle, Black Panther, Carol Swain, Glenn Loury, Howard Zinn, National Education Association, NEA, People’s History of America, Rebecca Pringle, Roe v. Wade, The 1619 Project, Thomas Sowell, U.S. Supreme Court | Comments Off

Schools Using Fake ‘History’ to Kill America

Posted on June 12, 2021 by David E Smith

Americans educated by government today are, for the most part, hopelessly ignorant of their own nation’s history—and that’s no accident. They’re beyond ignorant when it comes to civics, too. On the history of the rest of the world, or the history of communism, Americans are generally clueless as well. This was all by design, of course.

Posted in Education | Tagged 1619 Projec, Aaron Sargent, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Alexis de Tocqueville, Chinese Communist Party, Communist Party, George Orwell, Howard Zinn, John Dewey, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Marion Smith, Mary Grabar, Murray Bessette, Nation's Report Card, National Endowment for the Humanities, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Norman Dodd, Outline Political History of the Americas, patriotic education, Pulitzer Prize, Reece Committee, The New York Times, u.s. department of education, Walter Duranty, William Z. Foster | Comments Off

Trading Academics for Far-Left ‘Social-Emotional Learning’

Posted on June 5, 2021 by David E Smith

The facts are now clear: The Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) craze is an extreme threat to America’s youth—and to individual liberty.

The scheme isn’t about helping children at all. Instead, it’s about manipulating and conditioning America’s youth to hold the values and beliefs that the education establishment wants to instill.

Posted in Education | Tagged Adam Stone, Alice Bailey, Bill Gates, Black Lives Matter, Brian Wilson, class struggle, Common Core, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Critical Theory, David Rockefeller, David Sluyter, E.L. Thorndike, EdTech Magazine, Fetzer Institute, Howard Zinn, Humanism, Humanist Manifesto, hyper-racialism, Ivan Pavlov, James McKeen, Jennifer McWilliams, John Dewey, Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, Larry Grathwohl, Lev Vygotsky, LGBTQ-plus, Linda Darling-Hammond, Lucifer Publishing Company, Lucis Trust, Marxism, population control, radical environmentalism, radical feminism, Robert Muller, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Social and Emotional Learning, Social Justice, Socialism, The Epoch Times, u.s. department of education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Weather Underground, Wendy Turner, William Ayers, Xi Jinping, Zinn Education Project | Comments Off

Leftists See Orwell’s Novel 1984 As a Blueprint for Progress

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Benjamin D. Smith

One of the many remarkable aspects of this time in America is that all the forces of oppression about which George Orwell warned in his novel 1984 are present and growing, and many of the oppressors can’t see it. Ironically, many of the oppressors view themselves as paragons of virtue when, in reality, they’re paragons of virtue-signaling, which constitutes a performative cloak of invisibility that conceals totalitarianism.

Posted in Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged 1984, Ellen Page, Elliot Page, First Amendment, George Orwell, Howard Zinn, Jeff Berger-White, Laurie Higgins, Leftists, Michael Wolf, Newspeak, People's History of the United States, the Party, UMich, University of Michigan | Comments Off

Fomenting Racism in the 21st Century

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Benjamin D. Smith

The ideology of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other “social justice” organizations teaches that all whites are racist oppressors, thereby justifying verbal attacks on people who are deemed inveterate racists and justifying riots to destroy everything that has emerged from an allegedly irremediable racist system. In promoting an explicitly racist ideology, BLM and other “social justice” organizations institutionalize racism, the fruits of which we are still suffering.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged 1619 Project, America, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Dan Cathy, Glenn Singleton, Howard Zinn, Kyle Smith, Nikole Hannah-Jones, oppressed, Peggy McIntosh, Police, racist, riots, Robin DiAngelo, Shaun King, victims | Comments Off

Drew Brees, the Mob, and the Poisonous Doctrine of Collective Guilt

Posted on June 9, 2020 by David E Smith

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, a committed Christian, and, before last week, deeply admired and liked by people of all colors and no color, committed an almost unforgivable sin. He said this in response to a specific question about athletes kneeling during the national anthem:

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged 1776 Unites, 1984, Al Sharpton, Antifa, Ben Carson, Black Lives Matter, Bob Woodson, Brittany Brees, Candace Owens, Critical Race Theory, Derek Chauvin, Drew Brees, George Floyd, Hank Aaron, Harriet Tubman, Howard Zinn, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Owens, Jim Crow laws, Malcolm Jenkins, Martin Luther King Jr., New Orleans Saints, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Peggy McIntosh, Rosa Parks, Shannon Sharpe, Slavery, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The 1619 Project, Thomas Sowell, Tony Dungy, Tuskegee Airmen, White Privilege Conferences, Winston Smith | Comments Off

Special IFI Forum on Education Choice

Posted on November 5, 2019 by David E Smith

A recent headline of a Chicago Sun-Times article alarmingly reports that a Chicago Public School watchdog is fielding 3 complaints of sexual misconduct per school day. This comes on the heels of a 2018 Chicago Tribune report that exposed Chicago public schools of having more than 520 sexual assault cases all across the city over the past decade.

According to the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR), only 38 percent of Illinois public school students meet proficiency expectations in English Language Arts, only 32 percent of students meet proficiency expectations in math. This despite the fact that the NEA reports that …

Posted in Education, Exclude from Homepage | Tagged Gender dysphoria, Gender Neutral, Howard Zinn, Illinois Assessment of Readiness, intersectionality, Islam, LGBT History Mandate, NEA, proficiency standards, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, Transgender bathrooms | Comments Off

New Trier High School Avoids Diversity Like the Plague

Posted on January 10, 2017 by David E Smith

Conservatives claim that government schools are in the tank for “progressivism” and that “progressive educators” lie when they claim to value diversity. There is no better evidence for those claims than the upcoming “All-School Seminar Day 2017” Feb. 28 at New Trier High School (both campuses), which serves the affluent communities of Northfield and Winnetka, Illinois.

Posted in Education | Tagged Andrew Aydin, Daniel Cohen, Glenn Singleton, Howard Zinn, Lee Mun Wah, Monica Trinidad, New Trier High School, OiYan A. Poon | Comments Off

Most College Students Think America Invented Slavery

Posted on November 2, 2016 by David E Smith

For 11 years, Professor Duke Pesta gave quizzes to his students at the beginning of the school year to test their knowledge on basic facts about American history and Western culture. The most surprising result from his 11-year experiment? Students’ overwhelming belief that slavery began in the United States and was almost exclusively an American phenomenon, he said.

Posted in Education | Tagged A People’s History of the United States, Common Core, Duke Pesta, Howard Zinn, Slavery, The College Fix, Thomas Jefferson | Comments Off

Responsi-D**n-Bility

Posted on December 3, 2014 by David E Smith

The young black man in the video below, Frederick Wilson II, expresses views that are arguably far wiser and more helpful in the debate over justice and racial reconciliation than anything Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, or Jesse Jackson has said in recent years.

And Wilson’s views are exponentially more helpful than these inflammatory words from Louis Farrakhan who spoke recently at Morgan State University:

The young are God’s children, and they’re not goin’ down peaceful. You may not want to fight, but you better get ready. Teach your baby how to throw the bottle [Molotov cocktail] if they …

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Abigail Thernstrom, Al Sharpton, Barbara Kingsolver, David Horowitz, Eric Foner, Frederick Wilson II, Glenn Singleton, Howard Zinn, Jesse Jackson, Leon Litwack, Lorraine Ali, Louis Farrakhan, Paulo Freire, Peggy McIntosh, Shelby Steele, Stephan Thernstrom, Thomas Sowell, Tony Kushner, White Privilege | Comments Off

The Southern Poverty Law Center Infiltrates Public Education

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Jared Heath

Decades ago, summer was the time that necessitated increased parental vigilance. School was the safe place. But the times they have a’changed. Self-righteous “agents of change” stand ready at the schoolhouse door to mold other people’s children into ideological replicas of themselves. So now the school year has become the time that necessitates increased parental vigilance.

One organization that warrants particular attention is “Teaching Tolerance,” which is laughingly called an “educational project,” but is, in reality, the pernicious propaganda project of the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This is the organization that has listed the Illinois Family Institute, Family …

Posted in Education | Tagged Cesar Chavez, education, Hate Groups, historical revisionism, homosexuality, Howard Zinn, SPLC, Staceyann Chinn, Teaching Tolerance, transgender, Wamsutta James | Comments Off